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LOOP HOLDER. No. 542,357.- Patented July 9, 1895f panying drawings, in which-- 1 tive of the fastening.

UNITED STATES PATENT @FFICE.

ACHILL WALTER BRAND, OF sALTLAKE CITY, UTAH TERRITORY.

LooP-l-foLoER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Application filed October 1,1894.

To all whom it may concern."

Be it known that I, AGHILL WALTER BRAND, a citizen of the United States, residing at Salt Lake City, in the county of Salt Lake, Territory of Utah, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Loop-Holders, of

Figure 1 is a perspective of a portion of a shoe-upper with my fastening attached. Fig. 2 is a front view of the blank from which my fastening is formed, and Fig. 3 is a perspec- In the drawings, A represents a shoe-upper, B a lace-string, and O the fastening which forms the subject-matter of the present application. This fastening is preferably formed from a single sheet ofspring metal, and consists of a body portion 0 adapted to lie against the upper, a spring-retaining finger d curved backwardly toward the body 0, and a back plate 6. As above suggested, these parts are all formed from a single blank, as shownin Fig. 2, the body 0 being the central portion, while the lower portion is bent upwardly and backwardly to form the finger d, and the upper portion is bent downwardly to form the Patent No. 542,357, dated July 9, 1895.

Serial No. 524,671. (No model.)

back plate e, thus producing small arches at each end of the body 0. The blank has 40 stamped out or otherwise formed upon it an opening 6' in the plate e and a pin 0 in the body 0. v

The application to the shoe is apparent. The upper is inserted between the body 0 and 5 the back plate 6', the natural tendency of the metal to ,clamp the leather being supplemented by the pin 0, passing through the upper and entering the opening in the plate e, Where it is clinched, while the finger d, pref- 5o erably curved a little backwardly, forms with the body 0 a clamp between which the shoe or other lacing is caught. The construction is extremely efficient and at the same time is cheap and simple.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

A loop holder formed of a single sheet of metal comprising a body portion 0 provided with a pin 0 struck up therefrom, an arch at one end of the body portion, an exposed back plate e upon said arch, said back plate being provided with an opening 6' for the reception of the pin 0', a second arch at the other end of said body portion, and a retaining finger 01 upon said second arch; substantially as described.

In witness whereof I have hereunto signed my name in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

AOHILL WALTER BRAND.

Witnesses:

SIMON F. M-AoKIn, WILLIAM R. DILLON. 

